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Chris Wolfe on The EnergyMakers Show: Ever-increasing innovation in the oil field services space

Chris Wolfe, a partner in the Haynes and Boone, LLP Energy Practice Group, talks about the ever-increasing innovation in the oil field services space. >>



Recent Publications

Understanding Hydraulic Fracturing: Issues, Challenges and Regulatory Regime

This Note discusses the advantages and disadvantages of hydraulic fracturing, certain federal, state and local regulations to which hydraulic fracturing is subject and the future of hydraulic fracturing. >>

Law360 Guest Article: Drilling Into Ambiguities In Oil And Gas Laws

As the controversy surrounding hydraulic fracturing (hydro-fracking) and natural gas drilling ensues, a New York court upheld a town’s zoning ordinance banning natural gas drilling. >>

30th Annual Review of Developments in Business Financing -- Focus on the Oil and Gas Energy Patch

New technologies have transformed the oil and gas industry and led to a revival of oil and gas production in the Western Hemisphere. From western Canada to Brazil, these new technologies are being applied to unlock petroleum sources that were previously uneconomical: shale gas and shale oil (also called “tight oil”) in the U.S, oil sands in Canada, and deep-water oil in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Brazil. >>




Oil and Gas; Exploration and Production; Oil Field Services

 
The upstream portion of our practice focuses on representations including:

  • Purchase, sale and financing of producing oil and gas properties and related production facilities, platforms, terminals and gathering systems for domestic and international E&P companies and investors

  • Operating agreements, master service agreements, joint ventures, participation agreements, exploration agreements, farm outs and related operational issues

  • Debt and equity financing arrangements for E&P companies, investors and lenders including secured borrowing base credit facilities, land bank agreements, partnerships and joint ventures, contribution agreements and offerings

  • Procurement of governmental permits, orders and authorizations

  • Contracts for drilling, production facility, platform and terminal, facility acquisition, and construction involving platforms, terminals, drilling rigs, caissons, pipelines, and plants, and the financing of such transactions and facilities

  • Construction and operation of offshore facilities, platforms, terminals, gathering systems and mobile drilling units

  • Mezzanine and asset-backed financings

  • Volumetric production payment (VPP) and net profits interest (NPI) financings

  • Structuring and documentation involving seismic data on a license and on a proprietary basis

  • Complex multi-well drilling and participation agreements

  • Negotiations for chartering of support vessels overseas

  • Arrests and foreclosures of offshore drilling rigs